Onyx Egg Locations

Onyx eggs are similar to the Netherwing eggs, they spawn in random locations throughout Windward Isle and you can collect them to hand in for rep with the Cloud Serpent Order (Quest: Onyx to Goodness). They each give 500 rep (525 with guild perk) and currently you can hand them in up to exalted status. They don't sparkle, but they respawn in the same locations.

When can I start picking up the eggs?

You need to be level 90 to access the questline.
Head over to the Arboretum in Eastern Jade Forest, where an npc will send you over to Windward Isle to kill some Saurok and guide cloud serpent hatchlings to their nests. At that point, you can choose the egg colour of your hatchling that you'll be raising over the course of many dailies. Once you have your hatchling and can do the dailies, you'll be able to pick up the onyx eggs on Windward Isle. You can turn them in back at the Arboretum with Elder Anli who will have a blue question mark over her head, for the repeatable quest "Onyx to Goodness".

Server restarts are a good time to find eggs! I found 10 in a
swoop-over. Also some kind anonymous person provided an egg map, it's
most likely not accurate yet but it might help too.

86 comments:

Its very awesome how you screencapped every location, thumbs up for that, but is there a possibility to have it on a map, like your other maps, who show locations of certain "mobs/champions" maps. Would save my day, because i really do not understand where every location is ^^.Thanks in advance, and sorry for the question.

Be sure Always show is on for treasure. You'll find Onxy eggs listed there. There is an option to import data, the drop down menu will specify the expansion (MoP) be sure to have it on merg to save any data you've already collected. Good luck, as of my first day, flew over with 3 toons at various times and haven't spotted an egg yet.

I've explained why there is no map in the text above. If anyone can put together a large scale map, that would make it possible but I have nothing useful to work with for this tiny place :-( It's really just a matter of flying around the cliffs in circles, and checking the other areas in between.

I understand atm you haven't been able to put a map up cause no one is willing to help i would if i knew how but for the time being is it possible for you to put up the x-y until that time that should help us look on our maps to see the coordinants. Thank you again though for your efforts.

Very helpful and great guide. These eggs don't show up on the addon Gatherer, so that makes it hard to remember where they spawn.

However, don't count on grinding rep "in a day or less" this way. They nerfed the spawn rate. Apparently the "quick spawn" of the eggs in beta was a bug and they fixed it, so now not only do the eggs spawn rarely, you have a ton of competition if you're on a medium--large realm. You might as well sit in one spawn point and wait for one to respawn if you hope to find any eggs at any rate whatsoever, or do it in the middle of the night or early morning when not as many people play.

They do show on gatherer. be sure to check always show under treasures. You'll notice Onxy eggs are on that list. Then import MoP data, merge. That will show any eggs found by others and add yours to the locations.

servers just restarted. I am on a server where im pretty much by myself looking for them, ive noticed that once you find one, another will spawn in one the given locations. I got 16 in about 10minutes, but now i havent found one for the last 15. I think it's in some location i dont know about yet, maybe a cave or something. As soon as I find it, it will go back to spawning in the locations shown here

They really arent worth searching for for or camping. I do a route or two when i do my dailies but nothing besides that. The respawn rate is ridiculously slow not to mention the other searching. I recommend if you must search for them get on one of the mountians before a server restart and get in as fast as you can so you can grab them as they respawn prolly net around 5-10k rep that way

I'm from Azralon, and my server is pretty crowded, so every time I tried to hunt these eggs it was impossible, with the extra high competition.So... I let them go, and just kept doing my daily quests.Tomorrow I'll be exalted with Cloud Serpents.Simple like that. ^^

My server has a medium population, but when i was looking for eggs two days ago,there was a high competition...BUT: I was faster than they were and found 7 eggs in two hours. Lucky me :) I'm exalted with the Order of the Cloud Serpent.

I know everyone says that egg farming has been nerfed so bad it's a waste of time, but I just spent two hours on a Wednesday evening and got 14. That finished me off, so instead of a few more days of dailies, I get to fly my shiny new lizard around. Thanks for the guide. Big help!

This was the easiest rep I've ever done. I just found 11 of them in about 15 minutes. No one around at 3:30 in the morning. Restart in a few hrs so I'll come back and try that too. You hardly need a map. they're pretty easy to spot on this little island.

on my server during the weekdays, late night US, there's no one there. i was able to fly around for about 3 hours in a circuit without interruption and it appears the respawn rate is quite random. in 3 hours, i never once saw it spawn more than 4 eggs at one time. in between, the eggs would spawn quite randomly in 1's and 2's in the various marked locs on that above map.

that being said, one egg sent me over to revered, whereby i bought the 100% rep increase item from the panda near the kite master. thereafter, each egg was giving me 1100 rep (+550 bonus). i ding exhalted with the eggs i collected over 3 hours after i did the new set of quests that opened at revered.

looking for the eggs, set environmental detail & ground clutter to low. also, move a distance away from the plateu where the eggs spawn. there is a point where all the grass will dissappear completely. if the egg is there, it will show on your screen without the grass/bush. you're also able to see the eggs from quite a distance away so you don't need to fly up to the actual spawn points to check if they spawned.

I don't know if I'm lucky or what but I was barely into revered and so each egg was 1200 rep or so with racial and guild perk and double rep because of the commendation. Anyway I went to wowhead to see if there were any quests I missed (My brother hit revered ages ago so I went from neutral to exalted in one day) and I learned about the onyx eggs, then I just flew around and gathered about 16 in less than 10 minutes, handed them in, and voila .. exalted. It was 4 am server time on a Monday so maybe that had to do with it.

Great! However it's very hard to see on the pictures where it actually is. I mean, most cliff looks the same and the map on the pictures is too small.Unless most people here I have not spend large amount of time on this little isle.

Again, it's great that you put effort into something like this but the pictures feels like small clues how to find it instead of showing "here is it".

Took awhile for me to find any, my server is pretty busy Sen'Jin US, but I've found four so far and I'm not giving up, I only need 4 more to get exaulted, but I might go try getting a quivering firestorm from Houlon, which would put me close to be there, I've got the 100% increase so this will take me no time.

Thanks for the guide. I'm late to Cloud Serpent rep as I came back after 4 years away from the game. It only took me a day to get Exalted. They must have made this rep easier at some point, because it was a joke compared to Netherwing which took a couple weeks...not that I'm complaining. Onyx Eggs seem much more plentiful as well. I collected about 25 in one evening, plus a few hours the next morning using your guide.

Amazing and ever so helpful!! In 15 minutes I was half-way through Honoured for just a couple eggs and dailies. I have a smallish server IMO, but i'm going to guess the respawn times are between 30-45 minutes per egg, or they spawn in random groups of 5-6 over the spots you pointed out.

if you have read this far down before farming the eggs, just a heads up. I did the rep thing on 3 toons during MoP to be able to use my cloud serpents on all. I was over farming them on my boosted priest when a friend told me that as of the last update, you no longer have to do this. I checked, and sure enough. even though I was not exalted and had not completed the "training" I could ride a cloud serpent.

And I was halfway thru revered to exalted. lol Save yourself some time.

About Me

The person behind this blog is an artist, illustrator and birdwatcher with a fascination for all things nature. In WoW, I first played a huntress, then fell in love with druids. My main is a nightelf druid, but I regularly hop on the huntress to abuse her for eagle eye and tracking abilities :)
You can find me on Steamwheedle Cartel EU (Alliance) as Samskeyti.